Table 2 Parameters of grazing mobility previously reported in the literature. NR designates a characteristic or parameter that was not reported by the reference

Track

C

NR

NR

dry season

No

3.0–8.0

8–16

NR

Kenya

(Western and Finch 1986)

Track/GPS

C,CM,S,G

4

102

12 months

Seasonal

NR

CM 15–23; C 11–30; G/S 12–15

NR

Kenya

(Coppack et al. 1988)

Track

C

4

NR

12 months

Herd

NR

4.0–7.7

NR

Zimbabwe

(Scoones 1995)

Track/GPS

C

24

24

dry season

No

0.5–4.0

NR

NR

Tanzania

(Coppolillo 2000)

Interview

C,S,G

213

1566

19 months

Study site

NR

7.0–10.1

NR

Niger

(Turner et al. 2005)

GPS

C,S,G

24

237

12 months

Seasonal

NR

C 12.2–13.9; G 10.9–11.8; S 10.1–12.5

C 8.0–10.4; G 7.7–8.2; S 7.6–8.3

Niger

(Schlecht et al. 2006b)

GPS

C

7

102

12 months

Seasonal

2.8–4.6

8.0–10.8

11.0–11.4

Kenya

(Butt 2010)

GPS

C

21

21

March

No

2.2–7.6

9.7–20.5

10.2–11.75

Cameroon

(Moritz et al. 2010)

Track/GPS

C

25

125

24 months

Seasonal × site

NR

7–11

7.9–10

Cameroon

(Dongmo et al. 2012)

GPS

C

8

1525

17 months

Month × herd

NR

1.8–18.2

NR

Kenya

(Raizman et al. 2013)

Track

C,S,G

9

81

12 months

No

NR

C 7.5–17.4; G 4.5–10.5; S 7.3–18.8

NR

Burkina

(Zampaligré et al. 2013)

GPS

C

12

11

24 months

Seasonal

1.9–4.4

11–14

10.6–13.6

Madagascar

(Feldt and Schlecht 2016)

GPS

C

3

341

12 months

Study site

NR

9.2–15.9

NR

Ethiopia

(Wario et al. 2016)

GPS

C

4

214–218

214–218 days

Maximum for herd

6–9

NR

NR

Kenya

(Liao et al. 2017)

Interview/track

C

6

NR

12 months

No

3–4

NR

NR

Sudan

(Sulieman and Ahmed 2017)